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Table 3 Definitions for codes that describe student behaviors

From: Characterizing science graduate teaching assistants’ instructional practices in reformed laboratories and tutorials

Type of behavior

Student code

Abbreviated definition

Typical instructional behaviors

Wks/Lab

Working on worksheets or performing lab activity

TQ

Taking a quiz

Interactive behaviors

SQ

Asking the GTA a worksheet- or lab-related question with entire class listening

1o1-SQ

Individual students or a group of students asking the GTA a worksheet- or lab-related question

WC

Engaging in whole class discussion in which students are talking serially

SPa

Giving a presentation

SI

Initiating one-on-one interaction with the GTA

  1. aOnly used in chemistry lab because students do not give presentations in physics mini-studios